Bill Clinton

30 Years Ago: Media Gushed Over the Clintons’ Crazy Health Care Scheme
Thirty years ago this week, Bill and Hillary Clinton outlined their ill-fated plan for unprecedented government intervention in the health care sector. The liberal media loudly crowed their approval, assuring voters “reform” would end the “shame” of America as the only developed nation without universal coverage.

Clinton Flunkie Reich to MSNBC: We’re Living in a ‘Goldilocks Economy’
Either President Bill Clinton’s unhinged former labor secretary is completely detached from reality or is flat-out lying about how star-spangled awesome President Joe Biden’s inflation-rattled economy supposedly is.

Scarborough: Evangelicals 'Fainting' Over Lewinsky Excuse Trump 'Rape'
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocks evangelicals as being on their "fainting couches" over their concerns about Bill Clinton's sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

The Media and Special Counsels: If Jack Smith Were Ken Starr
Ahhhh Special Counsels and the liberal media.

Flashback: Fawning Over the ‘Centrist’ Clinton-Gore ‘Beefcake’ Ticket
It’s been 31 years since Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton picked Tennessee Senator Al Gore as his vice presidential candidate on the 1992 Democratic Party ticket. The announcement kicked off a wave of positive coverage, as the media gleefully participated in the re-branding of a new “centrist” Democratic Party.

Scarborough Voted To Impeach Clinton, Slams GOP Move To Impeach Biden
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough calls Republicans seeking to impeach Joe Biden "insurrectionists, freaks, and weirdos," but fails to mention that in 1998, he voted, as a Member of Congress, to impeach Bill Clinton.

20 Years Ago: Media Saluted Hillary’s ‘Candid’ Scandal Fairy Tale
Twenty years ago this week, a compliant media elite aided Hillary Clinton's self-serving attempt to re-write the history of the Lewinsky scandal and her "vast right-wing conspiracy" smear of conservatives.

TIME's Cover Story Isn't News, It's a Gaseous Tank of Anti-Trump Rage
Here's a small sign that Time magazine has become less of a "news magazine" than ever. Their latest "cover story" is a short editorial by a former editor raging against Donald Trump, and how the entire spectacle of his indictment was a "crime scene."

Racist Trump, Wise Sharpton: PBS’s Hard-Left Hip-Hop Doc Spews Bad Rap
PBS’s four-part docuseries Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World, marking the 50th anniversary of the musical genre, was unapologetically leftist and political. Produced and hosted by rapper Chuck D., the series has featured musicians from Snoop Dogg to Jay Z to Eminem, with appearances by black professors, activists, and journalists, and….racial arsonist Al…

President’s Day Parade (of Quotes): Using History to Spin the News
Journalists love to use past presidents to measure today’s politicians, either to build up those who exemplify their historical liberal heroes, or to belittle conservatives with whom they disagree. Here’s a deep dive into the MRC’s archives showing how the media have used presidents from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to JFK as talking points in today’s political battles.

Reining in Government Spending? Let’s Get Real
Behind the refusal of the House Republican Party’s so-called freedom caucus to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is the caucus’s skepticism that he will actually “rein in government spending.” I’ve never quite understood why all Republicans do not belong to the Freedom Caucus. If the Republican Party supports low taxes, light regulations and strong national security, why is a Freedom…

Wishful Thinking! Todd Predicts GOP House Will Help Re-Elect Biden
During NBC’s Sunday Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd joined host Willie Geist to discuss the past week which of course included the days-long Speaker election in which Kevin McCarthy emerged victorious. Todd used his appearance to make a prediction that is both filled with wishful thinking and a lack of nuance in his analysis.
FLASHBACK: The Many Liberal Heroes of Barbara Walters
Longtime ABC News personality Barbara Walters died Friday at the age of 93. While she shouldn’t be confused with one of those classless left-wing hacks you see too much of in today’s media landscape (including on her daytime creation The View), Walters nonetheless exhibited a typical Manhattan liberalism that celebrated even the most flawed Democratic partisans.
30 Years Ago: The Media’s Shameless Coverage of the ’92 Campaign
Decades before the media’s embarrassing love affair with Barack Obama, or their open warfare against Donald Trump, there was the 1992 presidential campaign, when liberal journalists shamelessly promoted Bill Clinton’s candidacy and showed their contempt for George H. W. Bush.